Sir James Paul McCartney is 74 today.
Paul McCartney met John Lennon on his school bus as a child and
later joined Lennon‘s skiffle group The Quarrymen when he was
fifteen. The band played a combination of jazz, blues, and folk
music. After George Harrison joined the band, they changed their
name to The Beatles.

The song “At the Hop” reached number one on the charts on January 6,
1958, thus becoming one of the top-selling singles of 1958. It also hit
number one on the R&B Best Sellers list. Somewhat more surprisingly,
the record reached #3 on the Music Vendor country charts.

The trio’s version of “Twist and Shout” was their first record to reach a Top
20 position in the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and was the first major hit
recording of the song.
